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泛读句子南街 Text 1? The Shadowland of Dreams　 Language notes 　1. When I left a 20-year-career in the Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no prospect at all. 　（当我放弃在海岸警卫队做了二十年的工作而成为一名自由撰稿人时，我的前途渺茫。） 　A freelance writer is a writer who earns his money without being in the regular employment of any particular organization. 2. It didnt even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. （房子里冷嗖嗖的，也没有卫生间，就连这也没有什么关系。）　 The that-clause is the real subject standing for the first it. 3. On the phone was an old acquaintance from the Coast Guard, now stationed in San Francisco. 　（打电话来的是一位海岸警卫队供过职的老熟人,现在在旧金山。） The sentence structure is inverted for the subject is too long. 　4. He had once lent me a few bucks and liked to egg me about it. 　（他曾经借给我几美元，总喜欢喋喋不休地要我还给他。） 　Egg here means to encourage strongly or to urge persistently. 　e.g. I didnt want to accept her offer but Peter kept egging me on.? 　5. From deep inside a bull-headed resolution welled up. 　(我的内心深处升起一个坚强的信念。） 　Well up means to flow or start to flow, and here well is used as a verb. 　e.g. Anger was welling up in him. 　 Blood was welling out from the wound. 　6. Rumor had it that if a customer ordered steak the singer would dash to a supermarket across the street to buy one. ??（据传，如果有客人在餐馆里点了牛排，这位歌手会火速跑去街对面的超市为他买一个。） 　Rumor has it that is a common sentence pattern meaning that people are saying. 　7. Id be hard pressed to say which means the most to me. 　（我很难说哪一个对我最重要。） 　Be hard pressed means to feel it very difficult. Unit4 　1) The only place within our means was a row house on a little street called Pemberton. 　（按收入状况，我们只能住在一条叫做潘伯敦的小街上的联立房屋。）To live within ones means means to base ones expenditure upon ones income (量入为出地生活)； there is another phrase, to live beyond ones means (过着超过自已收入的生活). 　a row house: one of a series of identical houses situated side by side and joined by common walls. 　2) I also mentioned that I did handiwork on the side. 　（我顺便提到还兼职做些手工活。） 　On the side refers to work done or money earned ap